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A Guide to Drum & Bass and Teeimo Music Sites
Rave culture fans have a home on the Net.
By Andrew Graham
Techno music’s real home is in Europe,
where massive festivals (100,000 people
each in Paris and Berlin this year) dwarf the
Ampriran ravp
connection between, say, Moby and Danny
Elfman, are encouraged to explore.
Warprecords (warprecords.com) is home
scene. But fans
of ambient
music of all
kinds ran find
Sometimes the only thing to do Is
turn up the music and dance.
Squarepusher Autechre, Red
Snapper, Seefeel and Aphex
Twin, and some non-household
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what they want—on the Internet. It’s a given:
sometimes the only thing to do is turn up the
music and dance. Here’s Steamtunnels guide
to some useful music web sites.
Liquidskymusic (liquidskymusic.com) is
the premier drum & bass label. Liquidsky’s
artists include 1.8.7 (one of the earliest tech
no females), DJ Soul Slinger and DJ Wally.
They’ve also released the two compilations,
This Is Home Entertainment and This Is Jungle
Sky. They’ve got downloadable MP3 tracks
and handy reviews. Liquidsky also sells clothes,
if you need to import
the lower East Side
look to your campus.
Astralwerks (astral
werks.com) is a site
with hair on its chest.
It’s loaded with infor
mation, links and
music, plus a handy
pop-up/pull-down
menu to go straight to
your favorite Astralwerks artist—Fatboy Slim,
Chemical Brothers or Photek News. It’s loaded:
Acres of reading material about which acts are
doing what, and what bands are where. And the
High Fidelity section has the latest high-tech
action—streaming audio and video, live broad
casts and other goodies. The only slack thing
about this site: no discography.
"In-depth" is the best description for
Electronicmusic (electronicmusic.com). It’s
got reviews of albums, shows and even books,
but more intriguingly, reviews of both hard
ware and software for the creation and pro
duction of electronic music. The "Print" sec
tion is loaded with articles on electronic
music, including biographies of artists, selec
tive discographies, bibliographies and other
nuts-and-bolts info. Fans interested in the
my personal favorite, Disjecta. Geared more
towards selling records than label history, the
Discography
section is fairly
mundane. If
you’re interest
ed in one of
the label’s big
names you can
read an Artist
Biography
(warning: the Aphex Twin/Richard D. James
bio is shamefully self-aggrandizing), but for
lesser known artists there’s nothing.
Hyperreal (hyperreal.org) and Pulpfiction
(pulpfiction.com) are rave culture sites with
(among many things) lots of music. Hyperreal
has an interesting back catalog of reviews from
three older techno music mags: Reverb, Late
Train and EST.
They also have a
cool mix of artists:
The Orb, Susumo
Yokota (a.k.a. EBI)
and Orbital, and
affiliations with
great old-school
labels like Axiom.
Pulpfiction has specific guides to techno cul
ture in Seattle, San Francisco, Detroit and New
York. The classifieds are a big help to any DJs
in those cities.
Techno sites spring up every day. At son
icgroove (sonicgroove.com) you can buy
music and see loads of charts. Ravehouse
(ravehousetech.about.com) is a huge site
with links and info on lots of artists. Like
many About sites it has too much irrelevant
info, but the tour listings are useful. And
Kinetik Records (kinetikrecords.com) is
another useful site. •
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CultureConnect
Cultureconnect.com/webcams
See the world from your computer, or take a vir
tual tour of just about anywhere.
Cultureconnect links you to web cams scattered
across the globe, from Australia to Antarctica.
Select which continent you’d like to visit, then
choose from the list of camera locations that
pop up. EDionne
Content: A Usability: A
STUDENT RESOURCES
FinAid
finaid.org
An excellent first stop on the search for money,
FinAid demystifies loans from the PLUS to the
Perkins and helps you find custom-made schol
arships, whether you’re a multiracial DAR or the
county clog-dancing champ. It also clues you in
to which scholarships are scams, decodes appli
cation forms and gives you ideas for finding
money that may never have occurred to you.
CDavenport
Content: A Usability: A
Terraserver
terraserver.com
It’s the earth. Pictures of it. From the air. Maps,
satellite images and aerial photography of just
about anywhere on the surface you’d like to see,
with abundant zoom-in, zoom-out technology,
plus the option to buy a print of an image that
you get “just-right.” Its self-professed highlight?
Full, detailed aerial close-ups of every part of
alien touch-down spot Area 51. CDavenport
Content: A Usability: B+
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